Project MUSE®: Victorian Periodicals Review - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Victorian Periodicals Review.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 38 (2005) through current issueLatest Articles: Victorian Periodicals ReviewTWOProject MUSE®Victorian Periodicals Review1712-526X0709-4698Latest articles in Victorian Periodicals Review. Feed provided by Project MUSE®"Catching the right expression": Amateur and Professional Women's Photography in The Woman at Home, 1893–1918
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985892
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Published in the women's monthly magazine The Woman at Home (1893–1918) in October 1913, the article "What a Woman Does with Her Photographs" opens with the following:
A certain type of woman seems to have been born facing a camera. At the early age of three she was posed under a pink satin bonnet and in a goat-cart. Seven saw her in a plaid frock beside a fragment of Scottish rampart feverishly clutching a bunch of wildflowers. At twelve or thirteen the family leave her alone for the vague period called "the ugly stage," when she's nothing but arms, legs, and great eyes divided between childish gingerbreads and the joys of emancipation. But at eighteen, when the world is all white chiffon, little pink rose-buds
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/304/image/coversmall"Catching the right expression": Amateur and Professional Women's Photography in The Woman at Home, 1893–19182026-03-26text/htmlen-US"Catching the right expression": Amateur and Professional Women's Photography in The Woman at Home, 1893–19182026-03-262026TWOProject MUSE®894652026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-26"The Reward of Flunkeyism": Diagnosing Class Treachery in Reynolds's Newspaper
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985893
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Accusations of class betrayal have long been a source of internal conflict within the British labour movement. A prominent victim of such allegations was Britain's first working-class prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, who held office for nine months in 1924 and then subsequently from 1929 to 1935. Amidst a worsening financial crisis in 1931, his Labour government was divided over proposals to cut public expenditure. In an attempt to resolve the paralysis, MacDonald dissolved the ministry and formed a new "National Government" with the Conservative and Liberal parties.1 The decision sparked outrage within the Labour Party and resulted in his expulsion.2 According to socialist detractors, MacDonald and his
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/304/image/coversmall"The Reward of Flunkeyism": Diagnosing Class Treachery in Reynolds's Newspaper2026-03-26text/htmlen-US"The Reward of Flunkeyism": Diagnosing Class Treachery in Reynolds's Newspaper2026-03-262026TWOProject MUSE®1036982026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-26Periodicals Published Under the Banner of Waverley
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985894
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During the 1850s, two new periodicals appeared and aligned themselves by name with Walter Scott's epic Waverley novels. Waverley Magazine, published weekly in Boston from 1850 until 1909, was one of many literary enterprises connected to Scott's popular novels but only one of a few American magazines to survive the "magazine mania," as contemporary observers dubbed the mid-nineteenth-century flurry of publications.1 According to Jeffrey Groves, the reported number of American periodicals grew from 1,631 to 11,314 between 1840 and 1880.2 However, only "a fraction of the magazines founded during this period survived" due to unsustainable business practices, as Eric Lupfer notes, making Waverley Magazine's long run
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985895
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This edition of the RSVP Bibliography covers Victorian periodicals scholarship published in the period between December 2020 and December 2024. We have indexed peer-reviewed articles, essays, books, edited collections, master's theses, and dissertations. The scholarship within includes works discussing journalism, newspapers, and magazines in Great Britain and throughout the British Empire primarily in the period between 1837 and 1901, though many of the studies stretch these time and geographical barriers. This year's bibliography highlights the vast array of approaches scholars across the field have adopted over the last four years: intercultural, transnational, transatlantic, feminist, digital, collaborative
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/304/image/coversmallRSVP Bibliography: 2017–202026-03-26text/htmlen-USRSVP Bibliography: 2017–202026-03-262026TWOProject MUSE®6357682026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-26Billy Waters Is Dancing by Mary L. Shannon (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985896
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Mary Shannon will be known to many members of RSVP, having won the 2016 Colby Prize for Dickens, Reynolds and Mayhew on Wellington Street: The Print Culture of a Victorian Street. Indeed, her work on Billy Waters was supported by RSVP's Linda H. Peterson Fellowship for 2021 in addition to a Leverhulme Fellowship. In her latest book, Shannon identifies her hero as an under-researched and significant figure whose story has wider resonance, and she offers "the first proper reclamation of his place in literary and visual culture" (4). Following in the tradition of Brian Maidment in Dusty Bob: A Cultural History of Dustmen, 1780–1870 (2007), Shannon traces the complex representational narratives of the figure of Billy
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/304/image/coversmallBilly Waters Is Dancing by Mary L. Shannon (review)2026-03-26text/htmlen-USBilly Waters Is Dancing by Mary L. Shannon (review)2026-03-262026TWOProject MUSE®80922026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-26Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities by Paul Fyfe (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985897
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Paul Fyfe is eminently placed to give us Digital Victorians, an accessibly written, scholarly informed book. His background in literary studies and the digital humanities (DH) has seen him take part in a number of major international projects relating to Victorian literature and culture with a focus on digital methodologies, and this expertise is brought together here in a useful and illuminating work.In his introduction to Digital Victorians, Fyfe immediately dispatches the potential charge of anachronistic analysis, arguing that such "presentism" makes the past "legible" and that bringing current academic thinking about DH to bear on the Victorian period only heightens our understanding of evolving knowledge
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/304/image/coversmallDigital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities by Paul Fyfe (review)2026-03-26text/htmlen-USDigital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities by Paul Fyfe (review)2026-03-262026TWOProject MUSE®100662026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-26Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy by Waiyee Loh (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985898
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Empire is a tenuous palimpsest in Waiyee Loh's Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy. It is transculturally formed, layered, mutated, reanimated, rebranded, and commodified. As such, empire functions at once as an economy and a webbed transmediascape, where nineteenth-century British historical and literary currents converge with neo-Victorian Anglo-American and Asian fiction, cultures, and popular practices. Loh illustrates how the reproduction, representation, and consumption of British imperial heritage in neo-Victorian narratives and performances chart the longue durée of Victoriana's paradoxical universalism and particularism in the global creative economy. The monograph
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/304/image/coversmallEmpire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy by Waiyee Loh (review)2026-03-26text/htmlen-USEmpire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy by Waiyee Loh (review)2026-03-262026TWOProject MUSE®136942026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-26A Cross-Cultural History of Britain and Belgium, 1815–1918: Mudscapes and Artistic Entanglements by Marysa Demoor (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985899
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"There is no such thing as a pure Englishman" (17). This notion, summarized from Daniel Defoe's 1701 poem "A True-Born Englishman," aptly introduces the central theme of Marysa Demoor's deeply researched entry in Palgrave MacMillan's Britain and the World series. In her introduction, Demoor proposes histoire croisée, or the study of relational structures between cultures, as the most effective methodology for understanding the post-Waterloo relationship between Belgium and Britain. According to Demoor, postcolonial studies has perhaps overemphasized the role of non-Western nations in defining Britishness and neglected to consider the influence of continental European nations. She argues that the connection forged
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/304/image/coversmallA Cross-Cultural History of Britain and Belgium, 1815–1918: Mudscapes and Artistic Entanglements by Marysa Demoor (review)2026-03-26text/htmlen-USA Cross-Cultural History of Britain and Belgium, 1815–1918: Mudscapes and Artistic Entanglements by Marysa Demoor (review)2026-03-262026TWOProject MUSE®91012026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-26Biographies
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985900
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Preeshita Biswas is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Texas Christian University. Her research unfolds at the intersections of British and Japanese imperialisms, Bengali renaissance and nationalism, and South and Southeast Asian postcolonialisms, focusing on the multiethnic, trans-imperial complexities of the plurilingual and polycentric nineteenth century and beyond.Sylvia Bloom holds an MS in Information Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. She has worked in the archives of both the Briscoe Center for American History and the Benson Latin American Collection.Joseph Brett-Demetre is a PhD student at the University of Stirling. His thesis focuses on Victorian press coverage of coal famines, which
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985901
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Congratulations to this year's Curran Fellowship recipients. The pool of applicants was very strong, and the committee selected eight scholars working on a range of local and global British periodicals in several disciplines at institutions in the United States, UK, Germany, and Italy. The Curran Fellows each receive up to $6,000 USD for travel and research on periodicals.Tarini Bhamburkar, "Regionalising the Women's Movement: Women-Led Feminist Periodicals from Bombay, 1890–1905"Sarah Bliss, "Scottish Periodicals and Detective Fiction"Taryn Hakala, "Dialect Acts: Identity Performance on the Victorian Page and Stage"Paul Hamann-Rose, "Printing the Spirit of Invention: Patents and Discoveries in Romantic-Era British
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